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DAVID FOX, `OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CAP OR HAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 260,185, dated June 27,1882.

' Application filed April 3, 18S?. (No model.)

provement in caps and hats; and the invention consists in areversiblecap or hat with the cloth composing its double surfaces sewed togethervat the seams of the sections of the body and the lower edge of the bodyunited to the band and visor by strips of binding-tape or other similarmaterial, so that the tape or binding may act as a hinge to facilitatethe reversing ofthe cap or hat, all arranged, combined, and constructedin the manner hereinafter more particularly described.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Fig- .ure lis a side view of cap'without front, partly 1n section; Fig. 2, side view of cap with front,partly in section; Fig. 3, a vertical section, showing cap and band withuniting-tapes; Fig. 4, section showing uniting-tapes, body, band, andhinge-space.

Similar letters ofreferenceindicatelike parts in the several figures.

This invention relatesparticularl y to reversible caps or hats-that is,caps or hats which can be turned inside out, selthat it is immaterialwhich surface is outermost-the cap or hat under any circumstancespresenting a fin,- ished and completed appearance. To construct my capor hat of this character any suitable material may be employed-such ascloth, silk, or even a water-repellent fabric maybe used. The cap or hatmay be of any desired size and formed with any number of sections, or,as they are technically called, quarters,77 and they may have a square,round, or conical crown, and the sections A ot' the body B of the capmay be cut to the required size and pattern; but, instead of being cutfrom one piece of material only, they are formed from two pieces, a andb, so that each section or quarter is double, the two pieces making adouble face to each quarter, so that each section or quarter may havetwo faces of the saine kind of cloth or other material, or they may becomposed' of two pieces of different material and of different color.The band C of the cap is in like manner cut to proper pattern and size,and is also made from two pieces of cloth or double-faced, and so withthe front D of the cap, (if it has one.) Now, the several sections, A,of the cap being in this way made,'they are sewed together and form thebody B of the cap, the two pieces of cloth composing each section beingstitched together at the seams c. The completed body B is now securedtothe band C by sewing its lower edge, d, and one edge, e, ofthe band Cto strips of binding, ribbon, tape, or cloth E and F, which unites themtogether, one strip being placed on each side of the parts to beunited,l (see Fig. 4;) but the lower edge, d, of the body and the edge cof the band do not abut together. On the contrary, a space, f, is leftbetween them, which is only covered by the stripsrE and F. The edge g ofthe. band C, which is not united to the body, maybe finished by bindingor stitching in the usual manner. Now, when my cap is constructedsubstantially as above, inasmuch as it is double-faced or covered orfinished the same inside as well as ont, it is Vsimply necessary to turnthe capthat is, its body,band, and, if with a front, the frontalso-inside out or reverse it, so that if the two coverings ot' materialof which the cap is made differ in color, one being light and the otherdark, the wearer can, to all intents and purposes, wear a light or adark cap, as circumstances may require or fancy suggest.

The reversing or turning inside out ofthe cap is greatly facilitated bythe man nerin which the body B and the band G and the front D are unitedto the tapes or strips E and F, for the space f between the lower edge,d, ot the body B and the edge e of the band C and front D acts asahinge, permitting the parts to easily fold inside out or reverse, forwithout this a bulging of the cloth at the folds would take place, whichwould materially interfere with its proper reversing, and mar thesymmetrical appearance of the cap; besides, the space j' insures thefolding of the parts always at the place desired.

It is obvious that the double cloth cap hercinbefore described will bemuch warmer than will the ordinary cap made from a sin glc thickness ofcloth.

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When the invention is applied to a hat the brim ofthe hat is sewed toits body by means of the tapes E and F, similarly to the manner olsewing the front and band to the cap, as hereinbefore described.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a. reversible hat, the combination of the hat-body A and its brimwith intermediate connecting-pieces E F, arranged substantially as shownand described.

2. The hat-body B, composed of sections A, each made up of doublethicknesses or two faces of material united together and section tosection by seams c, substantially as shown and described.

DAVID FOX.

Witnesses:

ROBERT JACKSON, CHARLES E. SIMMS, Jr.

